gmueckl

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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Society could take control back. It's not impossible. History has examples where people took control away from small collectives, although it wasn't always strictly lawfuly or even peaceful. To take it to the extreme, billions of
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Advancing the state of the art takes so many resources that it can't happen underground, at least for now. Slap enough controls on the means and the handbrakes are on. So your doomsday scenario could be preventable. The crux is that en
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Society abides by a lot of rules that you also learned to follow, mostly while you were raised. Why else would you even wear a deodorant?
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Here's a very strong take on the situation, more for discussion than a true representation of my own beliefs: The ML models will be trained as long as we as the human society in charge allow them to be trained. Progress only happens if
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Dyno is really freakish and I can see a couple of pain points if someone tries to use it productively. A IMO glaring one is that dyno::poly is a boxing type that will happily take your value type and shove it on the heap while nobody's
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Polymorphism in C++ can only be correct on pointers and references (which are pointers internally). Stack-allocated objects and polymorphism only combine if the object is initialized as its true type and a pointer or reference to it is hand
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
I find that it helps a little to maintain an iron grip on the design. Take the time for really detailed change planning. Be pedantic and push back against every little thing that seems wrong or even a little odd in any plan document the LLM
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
I just don't see how people who are truly cautious and methodical can persist in an environment that is defined by a pressure to produce "progress" as fast as possible. The competitive race tends to weed out people who slow d
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by gmueckl 1mo ago
Frankly, the US car industry hasn't set the bar very high. They were not very innovative in the last couple of decades. I think the European industry is a better benchmark, and even then the result is pretty clear.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
On an airgapped system that is is turned on once and needs to keep running for many, many years? Industrial equipment is a world of its own and internet best practices just don't transfer directly. Some PLCs run extremely expensive mac
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Hopefully, it won't be a small niche. It would be great if Haiku ends up getting used for meaningful work.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
The line is that an open Linux distribution will boot and run on hardware that is sufficiently compatible. The full MacOS as distributed by Apple is engineered to require closed source, non-redistributabe components even on the hardware it
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Yes.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Especially that one scene where the Meeseeks desperately pushes the button to create more clones seems surprisingly fitting in this context.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
AOSP itself shouldn't be.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Then I missed the public discussion on why making it illegal to possess DIY guns is not enough. Did that actually get debated or just handwaved away? By the time I became aware of this whole technical blocking thing, that was the only propo
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
MacOS isn't Darwin and comes under terms that do not fit rhe criteria of the exception. Apple actually did go to some lengths in the past to ensure that all layers of MacOS contained bits that they could claim restrictive licenses on.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Thank you for your work in DlangUI. Progress on it has sometimes been so slow that I mistook it for abandoned. It has great ideas as far as its API design goes, but the implementation wasn't very sophisticated yet last time I looked. I
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Dlangui is so niche that I am amazed to even see it here. DearImGui is intended for thowing together some slap-dash UI widgets for debugging things like interactive rendering. Do Qt built-in widgets have huge problems? Inwould assume that c
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
As if LLMs would ever not ignore explicit instructions if they stand in the way of a goal...
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Even worse to me is the tendency to not properly rewrite when prompted to change something in a text. It will always add to the document instead of replacing any obsolete information. The lengths it goes to to turn every document into a (u
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
But then the LLMs sees the syntax and is likely able to mimic it.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Won't work. Businesses need a proven track record before they can buy. With no established history of successes, this plan is already dead on arrival.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Politicians can be quite evil, but in a functioning democracy they need to be at least competent at gathering support and navigating the occasional backstabbing plots to make it to the highest ranks of government. So I'm hesitant to ca
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Good idea, except that the regulation (as I understand it) prevents this. The company sending out the packaging to the customer is the one who has to register. It's possible to hire consulting to set this up, but the fees don't go
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Any accomplished writer is keenly aware of the tone of voice they choose. So if they use profanity, assume that it's a deliberate expression. In this case, it's their way of expressing how low they think of the idealized stereotyp
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Rambling is OK as long as you can treat the result as a draft that you can refine. I've often written emails that were three paragraphs in the first draft and 5 lines after deliberate revision. And the shorter revision was always much
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
That's a part of the whole issue, isn't it? People have been trained to disregard (and disrespect) nuanced factual information un favor of political platitudes.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
The problem is really starting g with a coders mindset that reducing a change to an explicit visual representation of a minimal delta is such a useful thing for everybody. It isn't. For example, for images, an A/B comparison is en
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
A part of me is always smiling a little inside when people find creative ways to abuse browsers. It's always one more demonstration that the current web is fundamentally broken by design. The distinction between web browsers and random

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